Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Thomas L. Holdcroft

I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.

James Carville

The cynic suffers the form of faith without love. Incredulity is his piety.

James Richardson

What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?

Marquis De Custine

Great men always pay deference to greater.

Walter Savage Landor

Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our genetics, to our physiology, to that particular environment in which we live. The earth is our home. Unless we preserve the rest of life, as a sacred duty, we will be endangering ourselves by destroying the home in which we evolved, and on which we completely depend.

Edward O. Wilson

I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.

Albert Ellis

I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.

Ted Allen

People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the though of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believe in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.

John Green

Smartass Disciple: Master, what do say about the truth itself ?Master of Stupidity: Like sex, no fun anymore if all is revealed.

Toba Beta

The revolution ... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

Fidel Castro

As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.

Virginia Woolf